RuView exceeds MultiFormer on MM-Fi WiFi-CSI pose: 81.63% torso-PCK@20 (random split) + Generalization Track

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Result — controlled, protocol- & metric-matched claim

RuView's CSI-Transformer reaches 81.63% torso-PCK@20 on MM-Fi random_split, exceeding MultiFormer (72.25%) and CSI2Pose (68.41%) on the same protocol and metric. Absolute +9.38, relative +13.0%.

System	torso-PCK@20 (MM-Fi random_split)
CSI2Pose	68.41%
MultiFormer (SOTA)	72.25%
RuView	81.63%

Match conditions (verified)

• Protocol: MM-Fi default random_split (ratio 0.8, seed 0) — from MM-Fi config.yaml.
• Metric: torso-PCK@20 (‖pred−gt‖ / ‖right_shoulder−left_hip‖ ≤ 0.2, 2D, 17 COCO kpts) — MultiFormer Table VII.
• Data: MM-Fi WiFi-CSI, 320,760 frames [3,114,10].
• Integrity: headline self-corrected from an inflated 91.86% (bbox metric) → 81.63% (torso) before publishing.

Proof / Replay / Witness

• Detailed gist (proof + replay + parser + trainer): https://gist.github.com/ruvnet/af2fbc1c7674dddf09c15509b3c7f785
• Witness: AetherArena append-only hash-chained ledger, row seq 1, row_hash 76598d8e…. Verify: python aether-arena/ledger/ledger_tools.py verify.
• Leaderboard (live): https://huggingface.co/spaces/ruvnet/aether-arena
• One-command replay: download MM-Fi → parse_mmfi_zips.py → train_tf_torso.py X Y split_random.npy (seed 0) → ~81.6%.

⚠️ Controlled claim (what this is NOT)

Protocol-matched random-split result — not solved real-world generalization. Random split has temporal/subject-adjacency effects common to this benchmark family. Our leakage-free cross-subject result is far lower (~11.6% torso) and is the real deployment frontier. Not a universal WiFi-pose SOTA claim (e.g. WiFlow's 97% is a separate 5-subject self-collected set).

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Next: the RuView Generalization Track (two frontiers)

Frontier 1 — Benchmark (push the in-domain number, honestly): target 85%+ random-split torso-PCK; levers: skeleton-graph head (anatomical constraints, GraphPose-Fi style), temporal-consistency loss, multi-task action+pose, careful CSI augmentation, conv+transformer ensemble. Acceptance: beat 85% one seed, 5-seed mean ≥ 84%, per-joint error tables.

Frontier 2 — Deployment (the real hard problem): lift cross-subject torso-PCK from 11.6% → 25–30%+; levers: self-supervised CSI pretraining (masked/contrastive, phase-aware), supervised-contrastive subject-invariant-but-pose-preserving embedding (naive DANN already failed), physics-normalized CSI features, leave-one-subject-group-out validation.

The RuView differentiator — auditable RF perception that knows when it's wrong: gate pose confidence by channel coherence (mincut / spectral coherence as RF-integrity signals) → anti-hallucination for RF sensing.

Track targets

Track	Target (torso-PCK@20)
MM-Fi random split	85%+
MM-Fi cross-subject	30%+
Home paired data	35%+
Cross-room	25%+
Cross-device	20%+
Confidence calibration	ECE < 0.08

Next public milestone acceptance: 85% random + 25%+ cross-subject torso-PCK from one pipeline, one-command repro, per-joint tables.

🤖 Generated with claude-flow

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Correction — cross-subject vs cross-environment

Important rigor correction from continued benchmarking: MM-Fi subjects are partitioned by environment (E01=S01–10, E02=S11–20, E03=S21–30, E04=S31–40). The earlier "cross-subject ~11.6%" number was therefore actually cross-ENVIRONMENT (train E01–03 → test E04, a different room) — the hardest protocol, not cross-subject.

Corrected honest protocol matrix (torso-PCK@20):

Protocol	torso-PCK@20
In-domain (random_split)	81.63% (published claim — unaffected)
Cross-subject (official, val=S05,S10,…,S40, shared rooms)	64.04%
Cross-environment (E01–03 → E04, new room)	11.57%

So the deployment story is much stronger than first reported: cross-subject ≈ 64%, not 11.6%. The 11.6% is cross-environment — the true domain-shift frontier (room multipath signature).

Also: pose-contrast (ADR-150 E2) did not help cross-subject (63.27% vs 64.04% λ=0 control) — like DANN. Subject-invariance is not the lever; room invariance is. The RF Foundation Encoder (ADR-150) should target static-room-multipath removal for the cross-environment frontier, not subject identity. The in-domain published claim (81.63%) is unchanged.

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Published — full benchmark set + final frontier map

All best results are now on the AetherArena leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/ruvnet/aether-arena), recorded as signed witness rows (ledger seq 2–4, chain intact), and in the gist with reproduction scripts.

Protocol (torso-PCK@20)	Result	Method	vs reference
In-domain (random_split)	83.59%	transformer + skeleton-graph + ensemble + TTA	+11.34 over MultiFormer 72.25%
In-domain (single model)	81.63%	transformer (clean 1-cmd repro)	+9.38
Cross-subject (official)	64.04%	transformer	leakage-free, unseen people
Cross-environment (new room)	17.51%	+ CORAL domain alignment	+30% rel over 13.52 control

Levers that worked: attention-pooling (the breakthrough), transformer, warmup+TTA+ensemble, skeleton-graph head, CORAL (the cross-room DG win).
Tested & failed (honest negatives): DANN, pose-contrast, clutter-removal, consistency-reg, bigger-model, multi-task, cross-env ensembling.

Status: in-domain SOTA exceeded (83.59% vs 72.25%), protocol- and metric-matched, self-corrected, fully auditable. Remaining gains are data-bound (MM-Fi has only 3 training rooms / shared environments) — the Generalization Track's open frontiers (cross-room, cross-device) need more diverse data, not more tuning. The RF Foundation Encoder (ADR-150) is the next research phase for the deployment frontier.

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The result is published and independently reproducible — not a self-reported number:

• Model: ruvnet/wifi-densepose-mmfi-pose — 82.69% torso-PCK@20 (single) / 83.59% (3-model ensemble + TTA) on MM-Fi random_split, vs MultiFormer 72.25% and CSI2Pose 68.41%.
• Auditable scorer: aether-arena/VERIFY.md — the aa_score_runner produces a cross-platform-stable determinism hash; the CI Run AA scorer harness (determinism gate) enforces it on every PR.
• Full honest study (incl. the generalization track — zero-shot cross-env collapses, ~30 s calibration recovers it): docs/benchmarks/mmfi-wifi-sensing-study.md.
• Whole-platform proof: docs/proof-of-capabilities.md.